Thousands of grieving, angry mourners flooded Bishkek's main square Friday to honor victims of Kyrgyzstan's revolt with many blaming the country's absent president for ordering troops to fire on those protesting his government.

U.S. allies on Wednesday lined up behind President Obama's new policy aimed at reducing the likelihood of nuclear conflict. But Iran -- classified as a possible target under the guideliness -- dismissed it as a "cowboy" policy by a political newcomer doomed to fail.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Tuesday that unprecedented limits being placed on the U.S. nuclear arsenal won't weaken the nation's defense and will send a "strong message" to Iran and North Korea to "play by the rules."

As Obama returns to Prague Castle on Thursday to sign a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia, Czechs differ over whether his conciliatory dialogue with their former occupier is dangerously nave or a laudable step toward global security.

The second Moscow suicide bomber may have been a 28-year-old school teacher from the southern province of Dagestan, a Russian newspaper reported Sunday, quoting the woman's father as saying he recognized her in a photograph.

Two suicide bombers including one impersonating a police officer killed 12 people in southern Russia on Wednesday, two days after deadly suicide bombings blamed on the region's militants tore through the Moscow subway system.